Get a complete update on Biology and Geology and improve your skills as a teacher of these disciplines" 

Biology and Geology professionals have advanced knowledge of these disciplines and bringing it to the classroom at High School Education levels is a challenge, given the complexity of some concepts. 

However, the numerous current teaching resources and new methodological approaches favor this teaching-learning process. Therefore, in order to encourage future teachers in this task, TECH has developed this 100% online university program that provides the essential content that must be transferred to their students in High School Education.

 In order to achieve this objective, this educational institution offers an advanced syllabus with a theoretical-practical perspective on the Disciplinary Training of Biology and Geology. In this way, throughout 150 teaching hours, students will learn what and how to teach science, how to carry out experiments with low-cost resources or the STS methodology.

All this, in addition, complemented by multimedia teaching tools, specialized readings and case studies, developed by a teaching team with a great professional experience in the teaching sector.

 Future teachers therefore have an exceptional opportunity to improve their teaching work in Biology and Geology through a 100% online Postgraduate Certificate, which can be taken wherever and whenever they wish. You only need an electronic device (cell phone, tablet or computer) with an Internet connection to be able to view, at any time, the syllabus of this program. A unique opportunity to balance daily responsibilities with a first level university program.  

Build a scientific knowledge that will increase your students' competences thanks to this university program"

This Postgraduate certificate in Disciplinary Training in Biology and Geology contains the most complete and up-to-date educational program on the market. Its most notable features are:

• El desarrollo de casos prácticos presentados por expertos en enseñanza en Educación Secundaria 
• Los contenidos gráficos, esquemáticos y eminentemente prácticos con los que está concebido recogen una información científica y práctica sobre aquellas disciplinas indispensables para el ejercicio profesional 
• Los ejercicios prácticos donde realizar el proceso de autoevaluación para mejorar el aprendizaje 
• Su especial hincapié en metodologías innovadoras  
• Las lecciones teóricas, preguntas al experto, foros de discusión de temas controvertidos y trabajos de reflexión individual 
• La disponibilidad de acceso a los contenidos desde cualquier dispositivo fijo o portátil con conexión a internet 

Reduce study hours thanks to the Relearning system that will focus on acquiring a solid learning of the new concepts of this program"

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will allow the professional a situated and contextual learning, that is, a simulated environment that will provide an immersive training programmed to train in real situations.

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, in which the professional will have to try to solve the different professional practice situations that will arise throughout the academic course. This will be done with the help of an innovative system of interactive videos made by renowned experts.

Approach the new Science-Technology-Society (STS) approach in a practical way and bring it into your daily sessions"

Get an update in Biology and Geology and bring your extensive knowledge to teenage students in a didactic way"

The syllabus of this Postgraduate certificate facilitates the future teacher of Biology and Geology an update of their knowledge in this field and its pedagogical adaptation to students of High School Education. In order to further facilitate this work, the graduate will find an advanced syllabus complemented with multimedia teaching material that can be accessed from any electronic device with an Internet connection and at any time of the day.  

You have at your disposal a teaching team with extensive experience in updating the didactic knowledge of future teaching professionals"

Module 1. Complements for the Disciplinary Training in Biology and Geology

1.1. The Nature of Science as a Teaching Objective and Construction of Scientific Knowledge

1.1.1. The Restricted and Simplifying Concept of Science
1.1.2. The Decontextualized, Accumulative and Objective View of Science
1.1.3. Science as a Neutral, Individualistic, and Elitist Activity
1.1.4. A Teaching Proposal

1.2. History of Biology and Geology. Scientific Knowledge, School Science, and Science Education

1.2.1. History of Science as a Teacher's Resource
1.2.2. History of Science as a Training Tool
1.2.3. History of Science in the Teaching of Sciences
1.2.4. Is There Improvement in Science Education?
1.2.5. Science of Scientists
1.2.6. Scholar Science
1.2.7. From Teaching Content to Teaching Competencies

1.3. What Science to Teach: Literacy and Scientific Competence

1.3.1. What Science to Teach?
1.3.2. Student Perceptions of Science Education
1.3.3. International Assessments about Science Education
1.3.4. Society's Demand on Science Education
1.3.5. Status of the Science Syllabus
1.3.6. Why Teach Science?
1.3.7. Characteristics of Scientific Literacy Curricular Materials
1.3.8. Scientific Competence
1.3.9. Criteria for the Selection of Scientific Contents Under the Competency Approach
1.3.10. Need for a Contextualized Treatment of the Scientific Syllabus
1.13.11. The Current Syllabus and Scientific Competence
1.13.12. Some Proposals for Developing the Syllabus Based on Scientific Competence

1.4. The Big Questions of Biology

1.4.1. What Is Life?
1.4.2. What is the Origin of Life?
1.4.3. What is the Origin of Species?
1.4.4. What Gives Each Organism its Specific Identity and Individual Identity?
1.4.5. How Does the Individual Develop?
1.4.6. What Relationships do Living Things Have with Each Other and with Their Environment?

1.5. Biology and the World of the 21st Century The Evolution of Geological Knowledge Up to the 21st Century

1.5.1. New Biology Principles
1.5.2. Improvement of Human Health
1.5.3. Promotion of Industries that Respond to Global Problems
1.5.4. Knowledge in Basic Biology
1.5.5. What Remains to Be Known
1.5.6. Evolution of Geological Knowledge
1.5.7. Challenges of Planetary Geology
1.5.8. The New Era of Seismotectonics
1.5.9. New Challenges of Plate Tectonics
1.5.10. The Long Road of Hominid Evolution
1.5.11. Exploration of Natural Resources
1.5.12. The Geological Perspective on Climate Change

1.6. Environmental Issues and Sustainability

1.6.1. What are the Main Environmental Problems?
1.6.2. Characteristics of Environmental Degradation
1.6.3. Individual and Collective Behaviors Associated to Environmental Problems
1.6.4. Sustainability
1.6.5. Scientific-Technological, Educational, and Political Measures

1.7. Biology and Geology, and Its Relationship with the Science-Technology-Society (STS) Approach

1.7.1. New Curricular Trends in Science Education
1.7.2. The STS Educational Movement
1.7.3. Teachers' STS Practice in Classrooms and Schools
1.7.4. Some STS Curricular Materials
1.7.5. Advantages and Disadvantages of STS Practice in Science Education
1.7.6. The Iberian STS Movement and Prospective

1.8. Teacher Educational Research: Planning, Development and Evaluation of Projects in the Teaching of Biology and Geology

1.8.1. Characteristics of Today's Society
1.8.2. Faculty Research and its Cycles
1.8.3. Elaboration of a Work Plan
1.8.4. Performance in the Classroom
1.8.5. Data Analysis and Process Evaluation

1.9. Design of Didactic Experiments

1.9.1. Safety Rules and Cleaning in the Laboratory
1.9.2. Introduction: the Teaching Experiment
1.9.3. Teaching Experiments in Biology
1.9.4. Teaching Experiments in Geology
1.9.5. Low-Cost Teaching Experiments or Experiments with Recycled Materials

1.10. Practical Experiences in the Teaching of Biology and Geology

1.10.1. Practical Activities in the Teaching of Biology
1.10.2. Dissemination of Practical Activities
1.10.3. Web Pages on Practical Activities and Virtual Laboratories
1.10.4. Fundamental Characteristics of Practical Activities in Geology
1.10.5. Practical Activities in the Teaching of Geology
1.10.6. Field Practices

Bring to your classroom the best teaching experiments with recycled materials for Biology and Geology subjects and captivate your students"